Cooking utensil.



A. F. GHERNEY. COOKING UTENSIL. APPLICATION FILED cow. 9, 1911.

Patented M114, 1913.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60.. WASHIN JTON. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON F. CHERNEY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGELANDIS WILSON, 0F OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

COOKING UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 9, 1911.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON. F. CHERNEY, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and usefulCooking Utensil, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cooking utensils and relates particularly toutensils for cooking in lard or other grease, as for frying doughnutsand other products in a bath of hot lard or other hot grease.

The object of the invention is to provide a utensil for this purpose soconstructed and arranged that, in use, sediment and other physicalimpuritiescontained in or which may accumulate in the lard or othergrease will be separated therefrom, thus automatically clarifying thelard or other grease and maintaining it in a pure and wholesome con-'dition. v

To this end, a utensil of my invention comprises the various featuresand details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing in which my inventionis fullyillustrated,Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of my improvedutensil, through the settling trap and drain connections. Fig. 2 is atop plan view thereof, partly in section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a sectional View of the removable false bottom, on the line 33 ofFig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawing, A designates a vessel suitable for use infrying articles in a bath of hot grease, as for frying doughnuts inlard. As regards its usual features, said vessel A may be of any desiredor approved construction and will be readily understood without a.detailed description thereof.

Supported in slightly inclined position within the vessel A, and closelyadjacent to the bottom thereof, is a. removable false bottom 1,preferably made of suitable sheet metal, formed on the lower side ofwhich is a spout 2 which enters a discharge opening 3 in the side wallof the vessel A. As

shown, the false bottom 1, is supported by the spout 2 will rest on thelower side of the discharge opening 3, so that, when said false bottom 1is in position, said discharge opening 3 will communicate with saidvessel A above said false bottom. The false bottom 1 is provided 'withcorrugations 5 which converge to the spout 2, said corrugations becominggradually shallower toward said to the outer end thereof is a receptacle7,

preferably a glass flask or bottle. As shown said receptacle 7 issecured to said pipe by means of screw threads, thus providing forconveniently attaching and disconnecting said receptacle.

The drain pipe (3 is controlled by a stop cook or valve 8 and, adjacentto the vessel A, is divided into separate upper and lower passages 9 and10 by a longitudinal web 11, the inner end of which projects a shortdistance, say one inch through the discharge opening 3 into the vesselA. Said web 11 is preferably made of light sheet metal, as thin copper,and is pivoted at its outer end at about the center, vertically, of thedrain pipe, so that its inner end will be free to raise and lower tovary the size of the discharge opening from the vessel A into the lowerpassage 10 defined by said web. The

normal position ofsaid web 11, when the grease is cold, is downwardlyand inwardly inclined at an angle such that the size of the opening fromthe vessel A into the lower passage 10 will be about the area of thepipe 6. The operation of said web to vary the size of the opening fromsaid vessel A into the lower passage 10 will be automatic, the upwardcirculation of the grease in the vessel A, as the temperature thereofincreases, operating to raise said web to increase the size of saidopening, and the end of said web falling as the grease cools and thecirculation decreases, thus reducing the operating size of said passage.To provide for desired pivotal movement of said web 11 the lateral sidesof said pipe 6, in which said web is mounted, are made flat andsubstantially parallel, as shown at 12, Fig. 4, and movement of said webis limited by suitable stops, consisting, as shown, of the shoulders 13at the upper and lower edges of said flat surfaces 12.

In the preferable construction shown, the vertical section of the pipe 6comprises separate passageways 14 and 15 which join at their upper andlower ends and terminate in single passageways 16 and 17 respectively.The receptacle 7 forms in elfect a settling trap and for purposes of convenient reference will be so designated in the claims.

The vessel A being fill-ed with lard or other grease to a desired leveland heat applied to the bottom of said vessel, the operation of myimproved apparatus is as follows :-As the grease in the vessel A becomeswarm it becomes thinner and more liquid and sediment or other physicalimpurities contained therein or which may accumulate therein will settleupon the false bottom and, owing to the inclination thereof and thecirculation of the hot grease will gradually work down said inclinedfalse bottom toward the lower side thereof. Obviously as the sedimentdeposited upon the false bottom 1 passes along the same, it will beguided by the grooves or corrugations 5 to the spout 2, through thedrain pipe and into the trap 7, where it settles and remains. Movementof the sediment and other physical impurities into and through the drainpipe 6 is facilitated by the web 11 and particularly by the end of saidweb which projects into the vessel. A and which will operate in anobvious manner to divert the circulating hot grease into and through thelower passage 10 of said drain pipe 6, thus creating an outward currentalong the lower passage 10 and a return current inwardly along the upperpassage 9 of said drain pipe. As the grease becomes hotter and thecirculation more rapid, the free end of the web 11 will rise, thusincreasing the operative size of the lower passage 10 andcorrespondingly retarding the velocity of the current so that theimpurities in the grease passing through said drain pipe will deposit.When it is desired to empty said receptacle 7, the stop cock 8 isclosed, said receptacle disconnected, emptied, cleansed, if desired,replaced and the stop cock 8 opened.

With the described construction and operation, it is obvious that inuse, the grease will be automatically clarified and kept pure andwholesome all in the manner desired.

I claim:

1. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, substantially as described.

2. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupport in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connection comprising a controlled pipewhich connects said trap with said vessel above said false bottom and aspout on said false bottom which extends into said pipe, substantiallyas described.

3. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in in clined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connect-ion comprising a controlled pipewhich connects said trap with said vessel, and a web in said pipe whichdivides the same into upper and lower passages, substantially asdescribed.

4. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connection comprising a controlled. pipewhich connects said trap with said vessel, and a web in said pipe whichdivides the same into upper and lower passages, the inner end of saidweb projecting inwardly beyond said pipe into said vessel, substantiallyas described.

5. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower ide of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connection comprising a controlled pipewhich connects said trap with said vessel, and a web of thin sheet metalin said pipe which divides the same'into upper and lower passages, saidweb being pivoted at its ends remote from said vessel and stops whichlimit the pivotal movement of said web to define a minimum and maximumsize of said lower passage, substantially as described.

6. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connection comprising a pipe whichconnects said trap with said vessel, said pipe comprising a verticalsection provided with separate passage ways, substantially as described.

7. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined posit-ion within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said false bottom being provided with grooves orcorrugations which converge toward the admission opening to said drainconnection, substantially as described.

8. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said false bottom being provided with grooves orcorrugations which converge toward the admission opening to said drainconnection, and which become gradually shallower toward and runoutsubstantially at the point of discharge from said false bottom,substantially as described.

9. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connection comprising a controlled pipewhich connects said trap with said vessel above said false bottom and aspout on said false bottom which extends into said pipe, said falsebottom being provided with grooves or corrugations which converge towardthe spout thereon, substantially as described.

10. A cooking utensil comprising a vessel, a removable false bottomsupported in inclined position within said vessel, a settling trap anddrain connection from the lower side of the upper surface of said falsebottom to said trap, said drain connect-ion comprising a cont-rolledpipe which connects said trap with said vessel above said false bottomand a spout on said false bottom which extends into said pipe, saidfalse bottom being provided with grooves or corrugations which convergetoward the spout thereon and which become gradually shallower toward andrun-out substantially at said spout, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I afiix mysignature in presence of two subscribing witnesses, this &th day ofOctober A. D., 1911.

ANTON F. GHERNEY.

Witnesses:

S. J. DoRAIs, M. C. ALLEN.

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Washington, D. G.

